Words and phrases, when used in this article, shall
have the meanings ascribed to them in the Vehicle Code of Pennsylvania,
as now in force or as hereafter amended, enacted or reenacted,[1] except in those instances where the context clearly indicates
a different meaning.

In the case of emergency or to facilitate public works
or in the conduct of parades, processions or public events, to restrict
or prohibit traffic and/or parking in limited areas for periods of
not more than 24 hours.

Such temporary and emergency regulations shall be
enforced by the Mayor and the Police Department in the same manner
as permanent regulations. Any person who shall operate a vehicle or
tractor in violation of any such regulation or who shall move, remove,
destroy, injure or deface any sign or marking erected, posted or made
to give notice of any such regulation shall, upon conviction thereof,
be liable to the penalty set forth in the law or elsewhere in this
article for a violation of such nature and, in case of a violation
for which no specific penalty is set forth in the law or elsewhere
in this article, to a fine of not more than $10 and costs of prosecution
and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment
for not more than five days.

The Mayor, with approval of the Council and upon notice
to the Council, may, from time to time, designate places upon and
along the highways in the borough where, for a period of not more
than 90 days, specific traffic and/or parking regulations, prohibitions
and restrictions shall be in force and effect, and shall designate
such locations by proper signs and markings. Such regulations, prohibitions
and restrictions shall be effective just as if they had been specified
in this article.

No person shall operate or park a vehicle or tractor
in violation of any such regulation, prohibition or restriction, and
no person shall move, remove, destroy or deface any sign or marking
erected, posted or made by authority of this section.

Any person who shall violate any provision of this
section shall, upon conviction thereof, be liable to the penalty set
forth in the law or elsewhere in this article for a violation of such
nature and, in case of a violation for which no specific penalty is
set forth in the law or elsewhere in this article, to a fine of not
more than $10 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment
of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than
five days.

The purpose of this section is to allow for the test
and experimental determination of the feasibility and desirability
of permanent changes in the ordinances of the borough relative to
traffic and parking.

No person shall operate a motor vehicle or tractor
upon any sidewalk in the borough; nor shall any person operate a motor
vehicle upon or across any sidewalk except in order to gain access
to or egress from a driveway or alley at such locations where the
curb, if such sidewalk is curbed, shall have been properly cut down
for the purpose.

Any person who shall violate any provision of this
section shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $50 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment
of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than
10 days.

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a vehicle
or tractor at a speed in excess of more than than 25 miles per hour
on any street or alley in the Borough of Kingston, except where a
lower speed limit is fixed by law.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall be unlawful
for any person to operate a vehicle or tractor at a speed in excess
of 35 miles per hour on that portion of the connecting roadways of
Church Street and Third Avenue between Pierce Street and Rutter Avenue
in the Municipality of Kingston.

Any person who shall operate a vehicle or tractor
at a speed in excess of that hereby established therefor, upon any
street, alley or highway or portion thereof, specified in this section
shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of $35
and costs of prosecution and, in the event that the speed limit shall
be exceeded by more than five miles per hour, to an additional fine
of $2 per mile for each mile in excess of five miles per hour over
the maximum speed limit, or to undergo imprisonment as now or hereafter
authorized by law.

Any operator of a vehicle or tractor who shall disobey
the directions of any traffic signal shall, upon conviction thereof,
be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs of prosecution or to undergo
imprisonment as now or hereafter authorized by law.

Any person who shall operate a motor vehicle or tractor
upon any highway or portion thereof hereby established as a one-way
highway, other than in the direction hereby established for traffic
thereon, shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $10 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment
of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than
five days.

Any person who shall violate any provision of this
section shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $10 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment
of such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than
five days.

It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle
or tractor traveling upon the first-named highway at any of the following
intersections, in the direction or directions hereby indicated in
each case, to make a left turn and/or right turn at the said intersection,
as hereby indicated:

It shall be unlawful for the operator of any vehicle or tractor traveling
upon the first named highway at any of the following intersections,
in the direction identified in each case, to make a right turn on
a red signal at the said intersection.

Any person who shall violate any provision of this
section shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $25 and costs of prosecution or to undergo imprisonment
as now or hereafter authorized by law.

The following intersections and such other intersections
located within the municipality as may from time to time be designated
by ordinance are hereby established as stop intersections, and official
stop signs shall be erected (or are hereby confirmed if heretofore
enacted) in such a position as to face traffic approaching the second-named
highway upon the first-named highway in the direction or directions
hereby indicated. All vehicles and tractors approaching any such intersections
upon the first-named highway in the direction or directions hereby
indicated in each case shall come to a full stop within a reasonable
distance before entering any such intersection.

Stop Sign on

Direction

of Travel

At Intersection of

Academy Lane

East

Welter Lane

Academy Lane

East/West

Mercer Avenue

Academy Lane

East/West

Shuyler Avenue

Academy Lane

West

Railroad Avenue

Alley between East Vaughn Street and East Walnut
Street

East

Rutter Avenue

Alley between Park Place and Church Street

East

Anthracite Avenue

Alley between Park Place and Church Street

West

Park Place

Alley between Reese Park South and Landon Avenue

South

Dean Court

Alley between South Atherton Avenue and South
Loveland Avenue

North

Alley running east and west between South Atherton
Avenue and South Loveland Avenue

Any operator of a vehicle or a tractor who shall fail
to come to a full stop within a reasonable distance before entering
any stop intersection, as hereinabove required, shall, upon conviction
thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and costs of prosecution
or to undergo imprisonment as now or hereafter authorized by law.

It shall be unlawful for any person to operate any
vehicle or tractor, except a passenger vehicle or taxicab (but not
including any passenger vehicle drawing any trailer or towing any
other vehicle), upon any of the following portions of the highways
of the borough:

Any person who shall violate any provision of this Subsection A shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $50 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for not more than 10 days. Nothing herein shall prohibit the operation of any commercial vehicle or tractor upon any highway or portion thereof listed hereinabove where such operation thereon shall be necessary in order to pick up or deliver any goods, wares, merchandise or material from or to any premises located upon such highway or portion thereof.

Any vehicle which travels upon East Bennett
Street between Rutter Avenue and Wyoming Avenue or which travels upon
Church Street between Wyoming Avenue and Church Street shall not weigh
in excess of 11,000 pounds gross weight.

School buses, emergency vehicles and vehicles
making local deliveries to or pickups from buildings located on either
East Bennett Street or Church Street are hereby exempted from the
foregoing restriction.

School buses, emergency vehicles, vehicles engaged
in the construction or repair of streets and vehicles actually engaged
in making intermittent deliveries or rendering occasional services
to residential property on Division Street are hereby exempted from
the foregoing restrictions.

The Kingston Department of Public Works, in
accordance with standards and regulations of the Pennsylvania Department
of Transportation, shall erect and maintain restriction signs as required
by Section 4902(e) of the Vehicle Code of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.[1]

Penalties for violation. Any person operating a motor vehicle in violation of the weight restrictions imposed by Subsection B(1) hereof is guilty of a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $25 and not more than $100.

The boundary limits of the Borough of Kingston
are hereby established as a zone in which motor vehicles may remain
standing without lights, and all highways within such boundary limits
are hereby designated as highways where motor vehicles may remain
standing without lights.

The parking of vehicles for or related to the conduct of
business. This definition does not include vehicles engaged in the
delivery of goods and merchandise for a period not longer than 15
minutes. This definition does not include vehicles engaged in repair
or services for residential properties within the restricted area.

It shall be unlawful for any person to park a commercial vehicle
or tractor or to allow the same to remain parked in a "residential
parking only" zone. It shall be unlawful for any person who is not
an owner, occupant or visitor to a single-family residence or apartment
fronting the street or avenue designated for "residential parking
only" to park a vehicle in said zone.

Time limit parking. It shall be unlawful for any person
to park a vehicle or to allow the same to remain parked for longer
than the maximum time hereby prescribed therefor in any of the following
locations:

Name of Highway

Side

Time Limit

Location

Chester Street

[Added 9-7-1999 by Ord. No. 1999-8]

North

2 hours

From Rutter Avenue east 80 feet

East Market Street

[Amended 5-1-2000 by Ord. No. 2000-1]

North and south

1 hour

Kingston Corners to Market Street Bridge, excepting
the north side of East Market Street between Dawes Avenue and North
Gates Avenue

A two-hour parking limitation is hereby continued
for South Dawes Avenue from the intersection thereof with Market Street
to the intersection thereof with Pierce Street, between the hours
of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Eastern daylight saving time, excluding
any area designated as prohibited parking; and the two-hour parking
limitation heretofore established for North Dawes Avenue is rescinded.

A one-half-hour parking limitation is hereby
established for that portion of East Market Street between Dawes Avenue
and North Gates Avenue, Monday through Saturday between the hours
of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. prevailing time.

A two-hour parking limitation is hereby established
for the north side of Reynolds Street from Rutter Avenue and Wyoming
Avenue between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. prevailing time
Monday through Saturday.

A two-hour parking limitation on the north side and the south
side of Gershom Place from 157 feet from the intersection of said
street with Wyoming Avenue to the end of Gershom Place at the intersection
of said street with Ford Avenue, Monday through Friday between the
hours of 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. prevailing time.

A two-hour parking limitation during the hours of 8:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m. prevailing time is hereby established on the west side
of Wyoming Avenue and the east side of Wyoming Avenue from the Municipal
boundary at Forty Fort to the Municipal boundary at Edwardsville at
all locations not falling within 25 feet of intersections where parking
is prohibited and/or not otherwise subject to another more restrictive
specific traffic control.

The Kingston Department of Public Works is hereby
authorized to post Pennsylvania Department of Transportation approved
regulatory signs on property standards to advise motorists of the
two-hour parking limitation of South Dawes Avenue in the location
previously prescribed between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.,
Eastern daylight saving time. Furthermore, in line with the removal
of the parking limitation on North Dawes Avenue, the Kingston Department
of Public Works is hereby authorized to remove those signs relating
to the parking limitation of North Dawes Avenue.

Parking is prohibited on the west side of Mercer Avenue from the
northerly sideline of West Bennett Street to the southerly sideline
of Eley Street between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. prevailing
time.

The following streets are one-way streets and are sufficiently narrow
as to only allow parking on one side of the street and travel in a
single available lane, thereby requiring special parking regulations
on street sweeping days.

When the posted "parking" side is to be cleaned and parking thereby
prohibited, vehicles shall be allowed to park on the traveling lane
side of the street from one hour before the stated hour for street
sweeping to be commenced until one hour after the posted hours for
street sweeping.

Any person who shall violate any provision of this
article shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay the fine
hereinafter stated and costs of prosecution or to undergo imprisonment,
as now or hereafter authorized by law.

Editor's Note: Former Subsection F(5), regarding
a fine of $15 not paid within 48 hours from issuance of notice of
violation, which immediately followed this subsection, was repealed
6-7-2004 by Ord. No. 2004-6.

The Municipal Secretary is hereby authorized to provide
for and secure appropriate notice of violation for use by the Municipality
of Kingston's Police Department, pursuant to the provisions of this
article.